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Saturday, April 9, 2016

Canvas, layout and card

Hello there Scrappy Friends, it’s Helen with you today; I have three projects to share with you, each showing the versatility of Scrapmatts products.

The team was asked to use a photo of ourselves on a canvas. Gulp!

I have very few photos of myself and I had never used canvas before.

But nothing like a good challenge to get the creative juices flowing.

I loved the way the canvas responded to all the mixed media,

staying firm and straight.

First, I applied a coat of gesso, before using texture paste

through Scrapmatts stencils, I used ST 1003 Stencil SticksST 1004 Stencil Bubbles, then I used various mists, sprays

and inks to achieve colour. The chipboard used is listed below.

CB 1021 Flowers 01

CB 6103 Scrap Words 21

CB 1146 Leaf Spray 01

CB Butterflies 02

CB 1188 Birds 06

The Flowers were heat embossed with Stampendous

"Aged Scarlet" embossing powder.

The bird was heat embossed too.

The leaves and butterflies were painted with Twinkling H2O's.

The title needed no treatment at all.

I scattered some thread and a few beads around.

For the "Imagination" layout I used

the alphabet flags as the title and thought they combined

beautifully with the kite. The quote is from Lauren Bacall.

CB 6085 Alphabet Flags 04

CB 5036 Kites 01

A few embellishments from my stash.

I tried to achieve a weathered look on the kite with acrylic paints.

The flair is from Studio Fourteen 40My journalling is on the back of the layout and it reads:-

You three little Grandchildren wanted to play outside. “Can we dig some dirt Granny?” “Sure, where do you want to dig?” “Somewhere with lots of room, so we can make a river and a lake” With a spot chosen under the orange tree, you formed a team. Without any discussion a foreman nominated himself, a second in charge assumed that role, which left a very willing girl to do the water carrying. You spent hours slopping around in the mud, discussing the merits of digging through to the other side of the world before dinner and other important matters. The session ended with a mud pie bake off and a taste testing for Granny.

What a delight to see you using your vivid imaginations

in the great outdoors having good, dirty, fun.

Finally, a Birthday card for someone special, using Maja papers and an embossing folder to showcase the chipboard,

Beautiful work Helen, love the blues and the treatment of your flowers, leaves and butterflies. Gorgeous photo of you. The layout of your Grandchildren, perfect photo and embellishments, What a wonderful time they had! and as always love your story telling. Your friend is going to love the card, just gorgeous Mary